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But the man who made this statement took it back on crossexamination. 4ud it is clearly established by seven or eight other witnesses that the talk about.prizes was merely a joking remark made by a man named Pins. No evidence whatever that anybody took this joke seriously and ever acted upon it. or that any judge or clerk ever got a. prize. or ever expected to receive one. And yet the majority membership of the committee propose to oust the coutestee upon such flimsy. testimony of corruption. and the fact that the regIstration list of voters for the third and eighteenth wards of this congressional district discloses a defective registration of 2.000 persons. alien born. because of the failure of the registry clerks to note on the registration book whether or not these persons were or were not naturalized. This matter was passed upon by the Supreme Court ofMissourl. which held that all of these identical persons who voted were legal voters and that the same were legally counted. The disfranchisement of the 9.000 voters of these two wards by throwing out the entire vote upon this socalled "evidence." thereby overturning the decision of the Supreme Court of Missouri and disregarding the long and wellestablished precedents of this House. would manifest a determined purpose to turn Theron Catlins plurality of 1.394 votes into. a majority of 431 for Patrick Gill. and brand such action as a deliberate. outrageous throttling of the will of the people of the eleventh congressional district Of Missouri. concerning which they would undoubtedly speak in no uncertain tones through the ballot box next November. [Applause on the Republican side.1